Tomorrow is the Chinese Lantern Festival - the last day of the 2 week Chinese New Year Celebration. I don't think we're doing anything really special tomorrow to mark it, we'll see.
Last night we went to see The Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth's production of Suessical Jr. It was a great production and the kids in it did a great job, Kai and Shen really enjoyed it.
Tonight we are going to see a Chinese New Year Celebration at the Mount Baker Theatre with the boy's Chinese language school. It's a presentation of classical and modern Chinese music. It looks a bit "high brow" so we're not sure how well the boy's will do with it, but i guess we'll find out.
Now for all the pictures...
Chinese New Year Assembly at Kai's School. His after-school Chinese class performed a really cool dance routine to traditional Lion Dance music.
Here's Kai with his Chinese language teacher, Sunny, at school (Kai's the one in the lion mask)...
Shen, the Ultimate Tag-Along Little Brother, goes to after-school Chinese lessons with Kai and actually got to be the tail of the lion in the assembly!
This is Kai and Shen with their Chinese language teacher Mary, who teaches them on Sunday afternoons at the Mei-Hua School...
They are getting to study Chinese calligraphy there too now, check out their great brush grip!
After two hours of Chinese, Kai and Shen look forward to playing on the playground outside. Kai spent quite a bit of time shooting baskets...
Shen spent his time climbing the "rock wall" with a friend...
One last CNY picture. This should have gone in the last post, but it didn't. I had a hard time trying to get photos of the boys with their fireworks, it was raining a little, and it's hard to get the camera settings right to catch moving subjects in low light, but this one kind of came out...
Last weekend the boys got long overdue haircuts. Shen told his stylist he wanted to look handsome, Kai told his he wanted to look like a Rock Star!
After the haircuts we took the boys, their bikes and the dog down to Zuanich park on the bay. I think I've posted more pictures of them at this park than anywhere else, but it's so beautiful down there.
Juno is getting better about letting the boys hold her leash...
Kai loves throwing rocks in the water...
Shen being a daredevil on the play structure...
And my favorite view of Mt. Baker from down there...
Kai's kindergarten class celebrated 100 Day this week (100 days of kindergarten), a great opportunity for extended counting and learning number concepts. Here's Kai kitted out from the party...
Weekdays are pretty busy around here, which the boys really love. When I get home from work Kai is usually still working out one or more of his Big Ideas, but quite often Shen is done and he and Go-jee are in their favorite chair taking a 6 o'clock nap...
Amazingly this never upsets our 8 o'clock bedtime!
Ben helped his little brothers build a marble roller coaster set their Aunt Erin and Uncle Bill handed down to them...
and here it is in action...
There was some other stuff too, but I'm done for now. I hope February has been a good month for you too!
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